PRESS
RELEASE: DECEMBER 2nd, 2006

US
activist Diane Wilson to receive "Blue Planet Award" in Berlin

On 2 December
2006 "ethecon - The foundation for Ethics &
Economics" will award the international "Blue Planet Award" to Diane
Wilson, the American environmental activist. The awards ceremony starts
at 2 pm and takes place at the "Ufa-Fabrik", Viktoriastrasse 10 - 18,
Berlin.

Wilson will receive the Blue Planet Award in recognition of
her twenty-year campaign against the pollution of the Texas Gulf Coast
by the chemical industry and her outstanding contribution to protecting
the environment. She has continued her brave commitment despite legal
charges, death threats and even assassination attempts. This
distinguishes her as a defender of ethical principles in the conflict
area between ethics and the economy. "ethecon - The foundation for
Ethics & Economics" will also award a negative prize, the "Black
Planet Award", to the company Monsanto. Besides being associated with
pesticide contamination and especially with the Vietnam War pesticide
Agent Orange, Monsanto is known for the development and marketing of
genetically engineered crops, with its aim being to develop a
world-wide seed monopoly. The company's aggressive corporate strategy
leaves no room for ethical behaviour. Both awards were designed by Otto
Piene - a member of the famous artist group ZERO - and refer to his
famous work "Blue Planet".

About ethecon

"ethecon
- The Foundation for Ethics & Economics" creates and
promotes projects, investigations, meetings, publications and other
activities in order to develop alternative economic and social models
which respect the environment and humanity. Social impulses must start
from the roots, having a critical eye on trust and globalization, and
the conflict between ethics and the economy.

PRESS RELEASE: JULY 4, 2006

Cindy Sheehan,
Diane Wilson, Dick Gregory, Iraq veterans and Iraqi citizens gather in
front of the White House on July 4th, their first day without food

After eating
their final meal in front of the White House yesterday, participants in
the “Troops Home Fast” a historic hunger fast organized by CODEPINK:
Women for Peace and Gold Star Families for Peace will spend their first
day without food on the Fourth of July. They will gather at the White
House at 10am and plan to hold a spiritual ceremony, send a message of
peace to the Independence Day parade, and remain outside the White
House with their message to bring the troops home from Iraq now.

Among the
Washington fasters are Cindy Sheehan, legendary comedian/civil rights
activist Dick Gregory, environmental Diane Wilson, former army colonel
Ann Wright, Iraq war veterans, Iraqis and Pentagon whistleblower Daniel
Ellsberg. They are joined by almost 3,000 others from around the United
States and 18 other countries. Celebrities and other well-known public
figures have committed to join the fast, including Susan Sarandon, Sean
Penn and Danny Glover, musicians Graham Nash and Willie Nelson, writer
Alice Walker, and more.

“While others
are enjoying their barbecues and fireworks today, we will be going
hungry for the most noble cause of all: peace,” said Gold Star mother
Cindy Sheehan, who began an open-ended fast today. “We are the true
American patriots today. Our founding fathers cautioned future
generations against engaging in wars of aggression for empire and
economic gain, lest we lose our national soul. And the war in Iraq is
exactly the kind of war our nation’s leaders once cautioned against.”

The hunger
strike will continue throughout the summer. “This fast has obviously
touched a chord with the public,” said CODEPINK cofounder Medea
Benjamin. “We thought there might be 3 or 4 of us fasting, and it is
more like 3,000. Every day hundreds of new people are signing up for
the fast. Some communities are doing rolling fasts, each person taking
a day. This is sparking a new level of commitment to get out of Iraq.”

For more
information, please see www.troopshomefast.org or meet the fasters in
front of the White House at 10-11am or 5-7pm.

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Diane Wilson was arrested in Houston on December 5th while
infiltrating a fundraiser for recently-indicted U.S. Representative Tom
Delay. At the time of her arrest Diane was wanted in Texas on Crimial
Trespassing charges from 2002, when she had climbed a tower at Dow
Chemical to protest the company's continued irresponsibility following
its 1984 chemical disaster in Bhopal, India, where 150,000 people were
poisoned. Diane refused to turn herself in for the trespassing charges
until Warren Anderson, former CEO of Union Carbide, turned himself in
to the Indian government, where he has been wanted for thirteen years
for the Culpable Homicide of thousands in Bhopal. Following her arrest
in Houston , Diane is currently serving a 120 day sentence for the
trespassing charge in Victorial County Jail.

As of December 21, you can now help Diane by
donating to the Diane Wilson Support Fund through the Environmental
Health Fund (EHF), a 501c3 nonprofit organization. Your contributions
are tax deductible and can be sent care of:

It has been two
months since Diane Wilson was jailed for her protest against Dick
Cheney. She is still being held in a Texas jail and according to a
recent letter from her, the conditions are very grim. If you would like
to write to Diane you can send her a letter or card (she cannot receive
anything else) to:

"Corporate greed
and its administrative henchmen have many faces and deadly
results--from the 10,000 gassed in a pesticide cloud in Bhopal, India
to the tens of thousands Iraqi and American dead in an
unjust war."
Diane Wilson.